Ariane Bois’s novel Our Brothers’ Keeper captures the experience of Jewish resistance in Vichy France.
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Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was a Russian Jewish immigrant to France who achieved a brilliant career as a novelist during the 1930s but was deported as a “foreign Jew” in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. Némirovsky’s tragic fate mirrors that of many assimilated Jews in Europe who had abandoned Jewish religious practice (sometimes to the point of conversion to Christianity), only…
Ariane Bois French author and journalist Ariane Bois will present her fourth novel, Le Gardien de nos frères (Belfond, 2016), and discuss its historical context with Department of History graduate student Alexandra Steinlight. The novel illuminates a little-known episode, the experience of les dépisteurs, the trackers sent to find Jewish children hidden during World War II whose parents had not…
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, in conversation with Adam Gopnik, with translation provided by Isabelle Dupuis THIS EVENT IS NOW AT CAPACITY. TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE WAITLIST, PLEASE CLICK here. We are also planning on broadcasting this event on Facebook Live. For details on how to join the event via Facebook and for updates, please check back to this…